Adaptations Online

The following notes address updates and other adaptations of the
Antigone story beyond the Sophocles tale. Listings are for websites with
more than an all-print press release or event calendar listing.

Antigona Furiosa
applies Antigone's story by pointing to the missing in Argentina
under a modern tyranny. The link shows set design with a brief
explanation. Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek, in an article for New Theatre
Quarterly (Nov 1994 v10 n40 p327(4)) praises this play and 's Antigone in
New York, by Janusz Glowacki (right) which was staged in 1992, for their
emphases on the conflict of authority vs. morality and the dominance of human
independence. Glowacki's Antigone is named Anita, and she's a homeless Puerto
Rican in the Big Apple in an allegorical play that stirred much critical
acclaim.

Set
in 1983 at "an American university at the height of the Cold War," Another
Antigone was produced in Seattle's ReAct Theater. The review
at SeattleCitySearch.com characterizes the plot: "A professor's zealous obsession with ancient Greek classics faces the firing line when an ambitious and willful young woman wants class credit for adapting Sophocles' classic tragedy, "Antigone," into a nuclear-arms conflict with an anti-Semitic subtext."

Other reviews and patron comments are provided by links from the main page
(click the photo at left).

The Portland, Oregon, Center
Stage did an adaptation of Antigone in 2001 that included the ghost
of Polyneices and an "Archivist." (Graphics and JAVA are messed up at
play site, but
the text suggests an interesting production occurred.) (Photo at left = Nancy
Keystone; click photo for a somewhat outdated bio.)

Click
photo at left (yes, that's Genevieve Bujold as Antigone) for a review of the DVD
release of Jean Anouilh's play (great acting by Bujold and Fritz Weaver, poor
quality, since it's adapted from a videotape).